Oh, and by the way, Jazz is the town tramp with a heart of gold because of her reputation for sleeping with so many guys. The book starts out very fun to read. I really enjoyed reading how the city of Artemis came to be established on the moon.
I liked learning about the moon's surface, dust and atmosphere. There just wasn't enough of the moon facts for me. Also, I'm beginning to question Andy Weir's imagination for the future. The moon inhabitants walk around and do all their business transactions on small computers that they carry. They pay for items and surf the internet and make calls on these "gizmos" as they are called. What there is plenty of: Welding. Yes, welding. More than I ever want to know about welding.
Stupid middle-school humor that the very smart adults all seem to love. Forced, unnatural dialogue. Convoluted, crazy plot that never really makes sense. Integral characters that are unexplained, because of one-note superficial writing.
After the first third of the book, I had to push through to finish it. Especially the middle part with all the welding. Take my advice and skim skim skim through the welding. The very end ramps up with some excitement, but not enough to make up of for the rest. I would have liked more moonwalking, less welding. More thinking, less insulting. More imagination, less joking. More sci-fi, less lame comedy. View all 90 comments. No, seriously. The book does have science in it but it's not too bad.
This is mostly about Jazz who has lived on the moon since she was 6 and now she's in her 20's. Her dad lives on the moon too but they had a falling out and she makes it on her own by doing. I love the character of Jazz. She's funny and does crazy things but never anything to hurt any one. Jazz doesn't live in the good part of town. Yes, the city on the moon is called Artemis and they have their rich side and poor side.
It's just too awesome to read about. Jazz does some odd jobs as a porter but she also brings in contraband and no it's nothing bad. She has a cool friend she emails from Earth, his name is Kelvin. I love their talks. Rich people come to the moon every year to spend their holiday.
They stay in the fancy hotels and spend tons of money in the shops. Regular folk save up their money so they can come for a once in a life time stay. But, life on the moon isn't all that it's cracked up to be. There just has to be some evil mobness going on. There are life and death situations and Jazz in put on the spot to save the whole city.
That's all I'm saying, you need to read it for yourself. If you loved The Martian which I did you will love this book. View all 86 comments. Dec 06, Shaun Hutchinson rated it did not like it.
This book is awful. It's not just awful, it's offensive and immature and badly written. I wasn't expecting a masterpiece, but I'd enjoyed The Martian and hoped the followup would be fun in a similar way. It wasn't. There was nothing fun about this book. Let's start with Jazz: Jazz Bashara is a Saudi woman written the way a white guy who's never spoken to or met a single woman in his entire life would write her.
Some mention it as a means to shame her, Jazz mentions it to brag. It's just weird and gross and, honestly, only something a guy would write. The gay jokes: Just because Weir wrote a gay character into the book doesn't mean he gets to demean that character. The only person who's probably mentioned as having more sex than Jazz is Dale. Because gay men are sluts, am I right? Get it? Because they have a lot of sex. Oh, and not only is the gay guy a slut, but he stole Jazz's boyfriend and slept with him while he and Jazz were still together.
If I had my way I would ban Weir from ever writing about another gay character in any book for the rest of his life. Then there's just lots of random messed up stuff. There's also the odd subplot that goes nowhere about the reusable condom. LOTS of broad, offensive generalizations about other cultures. And the plot isn't even good.
It's a mess of highly unlikely stuff happening split by sex jokes and then more stuff happening that would never ever happen in real life and not just because it's on the moon, but because view spoiler [when you sabotage three pieces of mining equipment, blow up a company, and poison 2, people you go to jail.
Saying Jazz doesn't because they don't have one or whatever is stupid. Don't waste your time as I've wasted mine. Read something, anything other than this. View all 33 comments. When Artemis first came out I started seeing lots of one and two star reviews.
Not wanting to spoil the book, I didn't read them very in depth. But, the star situation had me concerned as I was looking forward to this book as I enjoyed The Martian very much.
Was I in for a big letdown? Lucky for me, the book was a 4 star experience! Thoughts on why others rated it so low - these are just guesses, I may be totally wrong: It is not The Martian - sometimes when people are a huge fan of a book they are When Artemis first came out I started seeing lots of one and two star reviews. Thoughts on why others rated it so low - these are just guesses, I may be totally wrong: It is not The Martian - sometimes when people are a huge fan of a book they are hoping for a same experience with the next book.
While it had shades of The Martian with the space science and the sarcastic humor, it is not The Martian. For me, this was not a problem. Sarcastic, cynical, innuendo filled humor is rampant. If you are not a fan of borderline inappropriate jokes or cheesy puns, this is not the book for you. I liked it and thought it was hilarious! It did not bother me. Figuring out what exactly is happening and why is a bit difficult.
For me, this was one part I can sort of agree seemed not quite as tightly woven as the rest of the book. So, I liked it! Since other people I kind of expected to like this didn't, I am not quite sure who to recommend it to. But, if Weir keeps writing, I will keep coming back for more! View all 70 comments.
I loved The Martian and I bought his next two right away. Just too busy to read them!!! This book was great. I admit to worrying that he wouldn't be able to keep up the quality from The Martian, and this is definitely a very different kind of tale from that, being half a heist novel but otherwise just a great adventure, but he pulls it off.
Better than pulling it off, even. I love his characters and the feel of the moon city, Artemis, is vital and detailed. But you know what the best part is? I was thoroughly entertained during the entire read. The pacing is great, the reveals belie This book was great. The pacing is great, the reveals believable, the twists unexpected, and the action, delightful.
I really couldn't ask for more when it comes to fun science fiction. The moon is a great place to have an adventure. There's always the threat of being deported to Earth, the expensive living arrangements, and the law if you're a smuggler, which Jazz is, but there's always suit and engineering and environmental problems to worry about, too.
And never forget greed and cupidity and the need to balance being a good person against a ton of intrigue. That's what we've got going on, here, and it's a real treat every step of the way. No spoilers, but I can easily say that I had a great time reading it from the first to the last page. Nothing could have pleased me more. The read is solid as hell. Thanks to Netgalley for the ARC!
View all 47 comments. Oct 13, Kemper rated it really liked it Shelves: crime-mystery , sci-fi , thriller , , bad-guys-rule , arc. I received a free advance copy of this for review from NetGalley. Serves you right. Jazz Bashara is a young woman who has grown up there, and knowing the place like the back of h I received a free advance copy of this for review from NetGalley.
Jazz Bashara is a young woman who has grown up there, and knowing the place like the back of her hand makes it easier for her to hustle a living legally by being a porter who hauls stuff around. Illegally, she makes money on the side with a smuggling business.
If she could get her EVA certification she could make a lot more by showing tourists the sights outside, but a hardware problem makes her fail the test as well as nearly killing her. So when a rich guy offers her a huge payday to perform a dangerous act of sabotage on a business rival Jazz takes the gig.
Weir has built up a lot of detail about life on the moon from the nuts-and-bolts stuff science stuff as well as how the Artemis society functions. Yet Weir never lets it get away from him and keeps it funny. So why not as good as his first book? Jazz could have easily been a young male of any religion so it seems like an easy nod to diversity rather than incorporating anything that might have deepened her.
Also, while this one has Jazz getting into plenty of predicaments it lacks the tension that The Martian had its best. View all 13 comments. Artemis - image from BusinessInsider. She is 26 and close to being homeless, which is illegal where she lives. She used to live with her father, but is too embarrassed to go back, having had a tiny accident in his workplace, smoking weed there with a pal, and…ummm…pretty much burning it down. She slee Artemis - image from BusinessInsider.
She sleeps in a tiny space fondly referred to as a coffin , gets by working as a porter, despite her exceptional brain, and aspires to getting her EVA license, which would allow her to make real money, escorting tourists and doing other outside jobs.
Too bad she kinda blew her road test. Andy Weir - image from Wired Good thing, though, that she has a fallback, a steady entrepreneurial gig. She moonlights as a smuggler. A steady client of her off-book import biz, a tech billionaire sort, has a plan for taking over a local enterprise. All it requires is for someone to do some unapproved EVA work and blow some things up. The million slugs local currency — maybe she should be called a sluggler. Ok, maybe not he offers makes it worth the very considerable risk of moving from her low orbit criminal activity to the much higher orbit of actual felon.
But what was that mysterious box she spotted at his place, labeled ZAFO? Unfortunately, all does not go as planned, and now some very scary darkside people are doing their best to put her in a state of permanent eclipse. I see Brianna Hildebrand as Jazz Artemis is a very exciting action-adventure sci-fi tale, with a dose of mystery tossed in.
Weir made some effort to hone his character-building skills and it shows. She makes bad decisions. Jazz is fun and relatable, well, relatable enough that we care whether or not she is given a close encounter with an unlivable atmosphere. You might have to suspend your moral perspectives though, as Jazz is what she is, a criminal. Her wise-cracking sense of humor is very appealing, as it was for Mark Watney in The Martian. Each chapter ends with an exchange of messages, from many years before, between Jazz and an Earth-based friend.
These also give us reasons to care about her. Unlike the case with his uber hit, he manages to stop himself from loading us up with too much.
A bit of corny humor around an experimental reusable condom did not work. This is where his Arthur C. Clarke, hard-science inclinations, meet up with Asimovian social examination, and a Heinleinian feel for dialogue, while stopping well short of the sort of deeper politico-sociological considerations of, say, Ursula Leguin. What he has succeeded in writing is a fast-moving, engaging, fun book that will slip you a little intel about actual moon-base science and planning while keeping you thoroughly entertained.
View all 37 comments. Jazz Bashara lives on Artemis, a moon colony with its own social structure and commerce. Estranged from her father, Jazz has been making ends meet functioning as a smuggler in black market trade. Most of her gigs involve hustling small-scale vice items. When a very rich man makes Jazz an unexpected offer, she cannot refuse. What follows is a story of girl trying to make up for past mistakes, while trying to survive the best she can, with a little corporate sabotage sprinkled on top.
I really enjoy Jazz Bashara lives on Artemis, a moon colony with its own social structure and commerce. I really enjoyed this book. The world that Weir created was just spectacular. When you are reading about Artemis, it's hard to remember that it doesn't actually exist.
It seemed so real and the science is feasible, which is a definite plus. The details were well-described, making this a delightful, light Scifi story. I loved Jazz. I liked her attitude and I think she really came full circle over the course of the story. I guess it is important to note that I have not read The Martian yet and frankly, I'm glad. I know a lot of folks read that first and then didn't enjoy this one as much.
I think now when I finally do get around to The Martian it will impress me even more, and trust me, it is still on my TBR. I would definitely recommend this to any Scifi fans out there who haven't read it yet. Who are we kidding though? I am probably the only one left on planet Earth to get to it! After a storm of dust nearly kills him and forces his crew to evacuate, thinking he is dead, Mark finds himself stranded and completely alone, with no signal on Earth that he is alive and even if he manages to decide the word, his supplies will disappear.
He may not have time to die after all. A damaged machine, a ruthless environment, or a simple human error is much more likely to kill him first. But Mark is not yet ready to give up. Release 14 November Search for a digital library with this title Search by city, ZIP code, or library name Learn more about precise location detection. View more libraries The bestselling author of The Martian returns with an irresistible new near-future thriller—a heist story set on the moon.
Jasmine Bashara never signed up to be a hero. I will definitely recommend this book to science fiction, fiction lovers. Your Rating:. Your Comment:. Home Downloads Free Downloads Artemis pdf. Read Online Download.
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